Posts Tagged ‘LibraryThing’

LibraryThing is organizing what it calls a Flash-Mob Cataloging Party on Nov. 15 to catalog the approximately 1200 books in the collection of St. John’s Episcopal Church in my old back yard, Beverley, MA. The idea is to create for them a complete LibraryThing catalog. Why the party? Well:

[I]t’s not always easy for a single overworked volunteer to catalog a big collection. So we thought we’d try a “flash-mob” cataloging party and see how fast we can enter an entire library into LibraryThing. A bunch of us will be there with laptops and barcode scanners in hand—and we’re inviting anyone in the area to join us.

I must say that I am intrigued by the notion of a “mob” cataloging. I also hadn’t realized that small libraries were actually using LibraryThing as a catalog– as you probably know, it was envisioned as a tool for individuals. You can find out more about that aspect by clicking on a link in the story that will take you to an explanation of how LibraryThing can be used by organizations.